However, my vote for ugliest delicious food is my mother’s lentil “soup” (which we like with a drier texture, so it cooks down in a greyish mushy mass). Real easy — 1 cup green/brown lentils, 4 c water, 1 onion chopped, 2 carrots chopped, salt, pepper, a dash of olive oil. Throw it all in the pot (rinse/sort lentils first). Simmer on the stove until everything is tender, and then at the end add in anywhere from 1/2-1 cup of a small bead pasta (Acini de pepe is what we use). That will absorb the rest of the water (you may even need to add some more — keep an eye on it). Really gross looking — I once made it for a vegetarian roommate and she didn’t want to eat it (“what’s that?’), but I made her taste it and she asked me after that all the time to make it again.

The farmers at my market said they will be gone by the end of this month … sigh. I have put up so many veggies/fruits in the freezer there is no room for meat I have decided to can next year.